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Today is it — the official launch of "Crash of the Titans." And what better way to kick it off than with an excerpt in The Wall Street Journal's "Deal Journal" blog? In a summary before the excerpt, the WSJ's Shira Ovide writes: "A new book by Financial Times journalist Greg Farrell — “Crash of [...]

Author, Greg Farrell

GREG FARRELL is a correspondent for the Financial Times. In January 2009, he broke the news that Merrill Lynch had paid out its 2008 bonuses a month ahead of schedule, in December, even though Merrill was in the process of losing $28 billion for the year, and Bank of America needed an extra $20 billion in taxpayer funds to complete its acquisition of the firm. That story sparked an investigation by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo. Greg is a past winner of the American Business Press’s Jesse Neal Award for investigative reporting and a recipient of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship for business journalism. He earned a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.